The ABLEDATA site is considered to be one of the premier Internet sites currently available on assistive technology. It...
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The ABLEDATA site is considered to be one of the premier Internet sites currently available on assistive technology. It includes a searchable database of over 25,000 products for persons with disabilities.

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National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research

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Aug 14, 2000
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Michigan State University's ASL Browser web site is an online American Sign Language (ASL) browser where you can look up...
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Michigan State University's ASL Browser web site is an online American Sign Language (ASL) browser where you can look up video of thousands of ASL signs and learn interesting things about them.

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Sep 23, 2000
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This is the home page of the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), an educational, not-for-profit organization that...
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This is the home page of the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), an educational, not-for-profit organization that uses technology to expand opportunities for all people, including those with disabilities. CAST created Bobby, a Web-based tool that analyzes Web pages for their accessibility to people with disabilities. (Reference: ADA)

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Center for Applied Special Technology

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Many ESL and FL lesson plans and resources. This rich site has been up since 1996 and is regularly updated.

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Martin Levine, Professor Emeritus

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This website is designed to provide information, technology, and resources to teachers, administrators, and parents across...
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This website is designed to provide information, technology, and resources to teachers, administrators, and parents across the country. Big Ideas in Beginning Reading focuses on the five BIG IDEAS of early literacy: phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, fluency with text, vocabulary, and comprehension. The website includes definitions and descriptions of the research and theories behind each of the big ideas, describes how to assess the big ideas, gives information on how to teach the big ideas including instructional examples, and finally, shows you how to put it all together in your school.

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Excellent article on how to communicate effectively in a cross cultural setting. Discusses common obstacles and gives tips on...
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Excellent article on how to communicate effectively in a cross cultural setting. Discusses common obstacles and gives tips on how to over come these obstacles. A great read reference for anybody interested in cross-cultural communication.

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Marcelle E. DuPraw, Marya Axner

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Oct 04, 2005
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The Waisman Center is a disability-related site with information to meet the needs of professionals, parents, and consumers....
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The Waisman Center is a disability-related site with information to meet the needs of professionals, parents, and consumers. It contains a number of sections including online chats, message boards, a shopping area for disability-related products, as well as resource listings and suggestions for medical issues, recreation and leisure, and worship. The "library" is an excellent location for finding video, audio, and written material about disabilities.

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The Family Village at the Waisman Center

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PBS NOVA transcript of a program on the infamous Genie, a child reared in isolation.

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PBA, NOVA

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Nov 13, 2000
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Mar 21, 2017

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The Linguist List, which is hosted at Eastern Michigan University and at Wayne State University, is an interactive website...
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The Linguist List, which is hosted at Eastern Michigan University and at Wayne State University, is an interactive website run by linguistics professors and graduate students. The site provides searches for everything from anthropological lingistics to writing systems. Its publications area links to thousands of book, dissertation, review, academic, journal and publisher entries. Its language resources area provides links to 250 dictionaries in different languages, acronym dictionaries, thesauri, and dictionaries of special terms. It has an extensive text and computer tools area, as well as an extensive teaching and learning area, including links to hundreds of EFL and foreign language learning sites. It also provides an "ask the linguist" capability, and a recipe book with recipes from linguists all over the world!

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The Linguist List

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Mar 13, 2007
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You can create an attractive PowerPoint presentation today. Get basic visual communication pointers and take the challenge to...
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You can create an attractive PowerPoint presentation today. Get basic visual communication pointers and take the challenge to create a presentation from scratch. You can do it!Poke around through the links on these pages to get a feel for PowerPoint 2013; then, take a look at the PowerPointers for information about visual communication recommendations and techniques. Even if you're using an older version of PowerPoint, the suggestions for creating good presentations remain the same. And, the general steps and locations of buttons in the software will be similar in PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2010.When you're ready, try to create your own presentation using the guidelines provided.

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Karen Walker

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May 09, 2014
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